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Malfeasance - correct answers-Unauthorized act committed outside the scope of medical practice defined by law. Misfeasance - correct answers-Unauthorized act performed in an improper manner, such as a medication administered at the wrong dose. Nonfeasance - correct answers-Failing to perform a required or expected act. Plaintiff - correct answers-In a civil lawsuit, the person who brings a legal action against another person Proximate Cause - correct answers-The specific reason an injury occurred; one of the items that must be proven for a paramedic to be held liable for negligence Qualified Immunity - correct answers-Protection in which a Paramedic is only held liable when the plaintiff can show that the paramedic violated clearly established law of which he or she should have known. Quid Pro Quo - correct answers-Circumstance in which a person in authority attempts to exchange some work-related benefit, for an inappropriate employee action. Res Ipsa Loquitur - correct answers-theory of negligence that assumes an injury can only occur when a negligent act occurs Slander - correct answers-Making a false oral statement that injures a person's good name. Tort - correct answers-A wrongful act that gives rise to a civil lawsuit.

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Emergency Care in the Streets Chapter
1,2,3,4
Blinding - correct answers-The method of not giving the specifics of a project to the
people participating in a research or study
Certification - correct answers-Person meets predetermined standard to provide safe
and ethical care
Descriptive - correct answers-A research format in which an observation of an event is
made, but without attempts to alter or change it
Inferential - correct answers-A research format that uses a hypothesis to prove one
finding from another
Licensure - correct answers-The process whereby a state allows qualified people to
perform a regulated act
Prospective Research - correct answers-A type of research that gathers information as
events occur in real time.
Qualitative - correct answers-does not use numerical information
Quantitative - correct answers-uses mean, median, and mode. Numerical
Retrospective Research - correct answers-Performed from currently available
information
Unblinded Study - correct answers-Subjects advised of all aspects of the study.
Blind Panic - correct answers-A fear reaction in which a person's judgment seems to
disappear entirely
Burnout - correct answers-The exhaustion of physical or emotional strength
Conversion Hysteria - correct answers-A reaction in which a person subconsciously
transforms his or her anxiety into a bodily dysfunction; visual or physical impairment
Critical Incident - correct answers-An event that overwhelms he ability to cope with the
experience, either at the scene or later
Direct Contact - correct answers-Exposure or transmission of a communicable disease
from one person to another by physical contact.
Displacement - correct answers-A defense mechanism characterized by the redirection
of an emotion from one person to another.
Indirect Contact - correct answers-Exposure or transmission of a disease from one
person to another by contact with a contaminated, inanimate object.
Projection - correct answers-A defense mechanism characterized by blaming
unacceptable feelings, motives, or desires on others.
Regression - correct answers-A defense mechanism characterized by a return to more
childlike behavior while under stress.
Stress - correct answers-A reaction of the body to any agent or situation that requires a
person to adapt.
Intentional Injuries - correct answers-Purposefully inflicted on self or others
Morbidity - correct answers-Number of nonfatally injured or disabled people
Mortality - correct answers-Deaths caused by injury or disease

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